With the UN predicting that more than 70 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, the development of sustainable smart cities is a rising need. Cities are now capable of collecting and analyzing enormous amounts of data to automate processes, improve service quality, and to make better decisions. This opens …
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In our recent endeavor to import in PoolParty the Google Product taxonomy in different languages, we encountered some challenges that needed to be addressed. The first challenge was that the Google Product taxonomy is in Excel (XLS) format, and for each language there is a separate file. The second challenge is on how to align …
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There is a strong connection between information storage and retrieval, namely how information storage is implemented under the hood directly impacts the retrieval or search. The knowledge management techniques we adopt have an immense impact on our daily productivity. For that reason, a lot of thought is given by us when we store information, asking …
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In September 2016, the Semantic Web Company launched its new service the PoolParty Academy. The online learning platform covers semantic technologies in different levels of complexity. So far over 300 people worldwide participated in the program and got certified.
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The Linked Data Lexicography for High-End Language Technology (LDL4HELTA) project was started in cooperation between Semantic Web Company (SWC) and K Dictionaries.
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Enterprises providing information using digital data need to make their data searchable, reusable and structured. Graph-based semantic layers do just that.
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In recent years, Nature has adopted linked data technologies on a broader scale. Andreas Blumauer had the opportunity to talk with Michele Pasin and Tony Hammond who are the architects of Nature’s data publishing portal.
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The goal of publishing open data should be to make it available for access or download and to make it interoperable. One of the big benefits is to make the data available for software applications which in turn means the datasets have to be machine-readable.
Read moreThe ADEQUATe project builds on two observations: An increasing amount of Open Data becomes available as an important resource for emerging businesses and furtheron the integration of such open, freely re-usable data sources into organisations’ data warehouse and data management systems is seen as a key success factor for competitive advantages in a data-driven economy.
Read moreSemantic Web Company and its PoolParty team are participating in the H2020 funded project ALIGNED. This project evaluates software engineering and data engineering processes in the context of how these both worlds can be aligned in an efficient way. All project partners are working on several use cases, which shall result in a set of detailed requirements for …
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